Often the life of famous people who always seem happy in public, smile and laugh, is actually tragic and hides many secrets. Fate is a strange thing. These people live in order to make others happy or just cheer for a moment. And in return they receive only sorrows and loneliness.
Life is a mystery, from the very first breath
There are a lot of rumors about the date of birth of Valentina Serova. According to official sources, this actress was born on December 23, 1917. But now it became known that the present day of her birth is February 10, 1919. Based on the information provided by the daughter of the actress, Maria Simonova, in her youth the girl gained several years of her life for the sake of fulfilling her dreams. She so wanted to enter the theater school that she decided to lie to the whole world and did not lose. However, for unknown reasons or for her own conclusions, actress Valentina Serova celebrated her birthday on February 23.
From a young age, it became clear that the vocation of little Vali is a stage. Apparently, she went to her mother with her talent, Claudia Polovikova, who was an artist and successfully performed in the theater.
The first steps
At the age of 6, the girl with her mother moved to Moscow. There she got her first role, which served as a kind of impetus for the birth of a dream. At the age of 8, Valentina Serova first appeared on stage with her mother in order to play her first and unexpected role. The girl was a boy in the production of "The Time Will Come", the son of the main character, played by her mother Claudia. This was the first step towards fulfilling a dream. After her unusual debut, the girl literally became obsessed with the scene and did everything to at least somehow improve her talent. She took acting lessons from her mother, and at the age of 14 she even dropped out of school and entered the theater college. The girl’s talent was so obvious that after a year of training, the actress Valentna Serova was invited to work at the Youth Theater. She worked there for 17 years.
First marriage
Valentina Polovikova (as a girl) always celebrated her birthday on the Day of the Soviet Army, February 23. And apparently not by accident: ironically, she married a military pilot, the hero of the Civil War, Anatoly Serov, taking his last name. The marriage was short-lived. The first husband of the actress died tragically, crashed in 1939. A little later, Valentina gave birth to a son and named him in honor of his father.
First movie
The year 1939 brought many tests to the actress. She not only survived the loss, but also gained a lot. In the same year, she got her role in the film "Girl with Character." This tape made a splash on the Soviet stage and brought the actress all-Union fame.
Not like everyone else
Valentina Serova was a very impulsive person, but at the same time she had unbridled talent and was distinguished by her special grace. The role in the film "Girl with Character" really lived up to her character. At the same time, she did not have enough patience, so she constantly left the theater under the influence of events and impulses, and then returned again. Due to her unrestrained nature, many directors were afraid to take the actress into their productions, but those who still decided and took risks, idolized Valentina.
Muse
On her life journey, actress Valentina Serova met a lot of people. Someone perceived her simply as a talented person, for others she was a mother, and still others were ready to follow her on the heels and composed poems and songs in her honor. In 1940, Valentina met the poet Konstantin Simonov. Their acquaintance was romantic and at the same time obvious. The girl impressed this man during her magnificent play in the production of the play by Maxim Gorky. After he first saw her, Konstantin came every day to watch the game of a talented girl for several weeks. His behavior was unchanged: he sat in the front row with a bouquet, and at the end of the play, flowers were handed to her. The young people made acquaintance, which soon grew into feelings. However, Konstantin and Valentina were in no hurry to legitimize their relationship: both had an unsuccessful experience of marriage. For several years, lovers lived in a civil marriage. Valentina Serova became not only a wife for the poet, but also his muse, a friend of life. In 1941, he dedicated a passionate and sensitive poem to the woman "Wait for me", and also wrote the script for the film about love during the war, about a long and loyal friendship. The central role in the production of this film was played by actress Valentina Serova.
The relations of the playwright and poet Konstantin Simonov and actress Valentina Serova were monitored by the entire Soviet Union. The famous woman did not feel great love for her husband. According to her daughter, the life of the actress was radically different from her heroines. She did not know how to wait. Nevertheless, the period of relations with Konstantin Simonov is considered to be the most calm and happy for the artist.
Another love
Valentina Serova’s life changed again when she was asked to speak at the hospital before the wounded in the war. Then just in a separate room lay Rokossovsky, the future marshal, injured in battle. They met when Serova came to him with a speech. The flame of a new love broke out in the heart of the actress, for which she was ready to sacrifice everything: work in the theater, her husband and shared time. Rokossovsky treated this a little differently. He was considered a notorious womanizer. At that time he already had three novels, so the fourth was useless to him. In addition, this man was legally married and had a daughter from him, so he was aware of the transience of these relationships.
Fading glory
In 1946, Valentina Serova played a cameo role in the film Glinka, which hardly anyone could call a furor. However, for her, the actress was awarded the title "Honored Artist of the RSFSR", as well as the Stalin Prize. During this period, Konstantin and Valentina had almost everything: they lived in a big house with housekeepers, walked around Paris and were especially bright people. This was an occasion for gossip and rumors. Evil tongues kept repeating that Simonov’s feelings for his wife were not the same, and the actress herself had other novels. In 1946, she was only 27 years old, but this is already the time when the girl has problems with alcohol. She often began to change jobs and skip rehearsals. In the theater, she had few well-wishers. Undoubtedly, Valentina still played in various productions. But these roles no longer rattled as much throughout the country as they did before. Often they were not even central and could be regarded, rather, as handouts from directors from the gentleman's shoulder. But that was in the late 1950s.
Masha
In 1950, Serova Valentina Vasilievna gives birth to a daughter from Konstantin Simonov. At that time, their relationship was slightly tense, for a while the child softened this situation. The daughter looked more like a father than a mother, unfortunately Konstantin. All the time he dreamed of a child who would resemble a wife.
However, the baby was unable to save the marriage of these two bright personalities: in 1957 they divorced when her daughter went to grade 1.
Theater dynasty
In the same way that Valentina once followed in the footsteps of her mother, her daughter Maria decided to connect her life with the theater.
Valentina Serova’s children from both marriages took something from their mother: daughter - good features, and son - bad. The fact is that initially Konstantin Simonov disliked the son of Valentina from his first marriage and insisted that he be sent to a closed school. There he fell into a bad company, and then in a Moscow colony, where he began to abuse alcohol. As a result, this bad habit turned into a protracted disease, from which Anatoly died.
Broken life
Biography of Valentina Serova is filled with sad and tragic moments. Unsuccessful relations with her husband, lack of love, unhappy fate of the son of Anatoly, who disappears from prison or from alcohol, all this makes the artist drown her grief in a glass of wine. Just during this period, the artist’s career finally ends, which lives on those pennies that she is paid for small roles, the very handouts from the directors. The actress was left alone, from the roles there was only a name that once thundered throughout the Union - Valentina Serova. The personal life of the woman was put on display throughout the vast country.
Valentina's mother sued her daughter, wanting to take away Masha from her, which brought the famous artist even more grief. Talking about the life of Valentina Serova, Maria said that serious work or a big role could save the situation. Perhaps then a woman could be distracted from her misfortunes, devoting more time to creativity. However, everything was in vain.
What prevented return
The directors did not dare to give the role of a faded star. She spent more time in hospitals, exhausting herself with treatment for alcoholism. In addition, now she had a bad reputation, and Valentina Serova herself was surrounded by gossip and rumors. After the divorce, the woman ended up in a communal apartment with her alcoholic son. Masha’s daughter was brought up by her grandmother. Another reason why Valya could not return to the stage was that Konstantin Simonov was disgusted to see the image of his ex-wife on stage and in newspapers. Yielding to a blind feeling of disgust, he withdraws all the dedications to her in his verses, except for one - "Wait for me ...".
Curtain
In the second half of the actress's life, she is haunted by misery and poverty. Valentina's father dies in 1966. She always remembered him as the bright ray of her life. This death makes the actress go into a heavy drinking bout. Another blow is the death of Rokossovsky in 1968.
The last years of his life, Valentina Serova lives in poverty. She continues to drink, and receives money for alcohol from personal items sold by her, which she did not dare to give away earlier. During this period, she communicates with the director at the film studio. Trusting him all her secrets and even reading the diary entries that she once kept, she also shares alcohol with him.
The daughter of a once brilliant woman was still taken away. She is brought up with her grandmother and rarely sees her mother. Valentina Serova very quickly grew old from alcohol, from the sorrows that fate brought her and from the fact that she could not gather strength. In 1975, the actress loses her son. Shortly before this, he wanted to renew his relationship with his mother and came to her with a bouquet of flowers, but was rejected. The next drinking companion of the actress drove him off the threshold.
Tolya dies of alcoholism, and after him the woman leaves. This happens just a few days after Konstantin Simonov celebrates his anniversary ... without a single mention of love for his ex-wife.
There are several versions of the death of a star. According to one of them, a woman intoxicated fell, breaking her neck. Another version says that Valentina’s death was violent. Some drunken bogeyman boasted at the pub, as if he had killed a woman. Be that as it may, she was found with a bloodied face in a small apartment on the floor. The coffin with the body of a woman was exhibited in the theater so that everyone could say goodbye. Vali’s mother came for the last time to look at her daughter, but she did not see off to the cemetery: she left the theater and wandered around Moscow for a long time in tears.
There is only a name left - Valentina Serova. Films remind of her loud fame and equally bright and at the same time quiet fading. In 1973, the woman made her last attempt to regain her name. She played in the production of Children of Vanyushin, where she was assigned the role of General Kukarnikova. The game in this picture did not restore the artist to her former glory and did not affect the future fate of the woman. "Children of Vanyushin" did not become a saving straw.
Many actresses behave too arrogant, and it seems that they can hardly be seen on the streets of an ordinary city, buying groceries in a store or just talking, talking to different people without pathos and deception. Valentina Serova was considered not like everyone else and at the same time a simple ordinary woman. She was never associated with those actresses who are on top of Olympus. On the contrary, Valentine was considered a natural man by nature, who is able to bring a little warmth and joy to people, to give a little happiness.
Actress Valentina Serova became an example for many: she was simple and close, but at the same time she always attracted and attracted. Few people know that Valentina Serova was called the third blonde of the Soviet Union. She knew how to give happiness, but she couldn’t find her own. Perhaps for many, this girl, actress, Honored Artist of the Soviet Union, still remains that thin girl in a dark dress who sings a song with her beautiful voice, that muse to which the saddest words in the world are devoted: “Wait for me, and I will be back , just really wait ... "
Valentina’s filmography contains not so many paintings, only 11, but they are enough to understand how talented this wonderful simple woman was and how tragic her fate was, which provided her with so many trials and tears. Be that as it may, Valentina Serova could not become that very girl with character.